Researchers say Florida's population has declined for the first time in 63 years and economists are blaming - what else? - the recession.
The head of the University of Florida's Bureau of Economic and Business Research says Monday that the state's total population dropped by 58,000 in the past year. It's the first decline since large numbers of military personnel left the state in 1946 after World War II.
Bureau director Stan Smith says not as many people are moving to the Sunshine State since its tax revenues have plunged and it has seen jobs leave. Would-be Floridians also are finding themselves stuck in homes that they can't sell, so they can't afford the move.
LOL No jobs, businesses closing or downsizing, cuts in the space program, irresponsible unaccountable elected officials, years of growth in home building and buying with little to no investment in infrastructure, bloated Department of Education without the building of new schools, incompetent doctors from across the nation setting up shop, constant influx of scammers.... I could go on, but what it really comes down to is residents not being involved in community or government. We just cannot continue thinking our one and only duty to our country is to vote. We must hold others and ourselves accountable.
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